Mind Quotes
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.La Rochefoucauld
Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.Italian Prove
The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking.Phaedrus
Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.Woody Allen
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.Herman Hesse
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.Norman Vincent Peale
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein it rejects it.P. B. Medawa
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
Bad mind, bad heart. Mals Mens, Malus Animus.Anacharsis Cloots
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.William A. Orton
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.Napolean Hill
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.Chinese prove
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.Earl of Chesterfield
Minds are like parachutes - They only function when open.Unknown
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.Paul Theroux
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.Joseph Addison
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.Blaise Pascal
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. Powers of Mind, 1975.Adam Smith
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.James Truslow Adams
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.Robert Ingersoll
Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.Julius Rosenwald
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.Albert Pike
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.John Maynard Keynes
Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.Robert South
The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it.Arnold Schwarzenegger
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.The Talmud
I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three - Piece suit. Max Lucado.Max Lucado, The Applause of Heaven
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.Will Rogers
The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.Joseph Joubert
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.William Shakespeare
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.E. Joseph Crossman
Historical reminder Always put Horace before Descartes.Donald O. Rickte
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds our planet is the mental institution of the universe.Johann von Goethe
